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British newspapers and their political allegiance (1)

British daily newspapers can be categorized into Quality Papers and Tabloids

1. Quality papers

These are so called up-market papers which have the most wealthy and well-educated readerships (more than 50% of readers in the upper professional and managerial social grades). The quality papers carry the more serious news.

The Daily Telegraph

• Type: Daily newspaper (Sister paper: Sunday Telegraph)
• Format: Broadsheet
• Owner: Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay
• Editor: William Lewis
• Founded: 1820
• Political allegiance: Conservative/centre-right
• Circulation: 882,413 (in 2007)

The Financial Times

• Type: Daily newspaper
• Format: Broadsheet
• Owner: Pearson PLC
• Editor: Lionel Barber
• Founded: 1888
• Political allegiance: Economic Liberalism/ Social Liberalism
• Circulation: 448,241 (international, in 2008), 133,665 (U.K., in 2008)

The Guardian

• Type: Daily newspaper
• Format: Berliner
• Owner: Guardian Media Group
• Editor: Alan Rusbridger
• Founded: 1821
• Political allegiance: Centre-left
• Circulation: 351,031 (in 2008)

  • The Observer (Centre-Left)

  • Compact Format
    • The Independent (Liberal / Centre Left)

      → Also: The Independent on Sunday

• The Times (Centre Right)

      → Also: The Sunday Times

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